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Author Poad, Doug

Title Contact : an Australian history / Poad, West [and] Miller
Edition Second edition
Published Port Melbourne, Vic. : Heinemann Educational Australia, 1990

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 ADPML SPTXT  994.0712 Poa/Caa 1990  LIB USE ONLY
Description xii, 214 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 28 cm
Contents Sound cassette presents interviews with aborigines from different parts of Australia who discuss their experiences and observations of contact with white Australians
Summary Documentary and visual evidence of the contact and relationships between Aborigines and European Australians from the time of European settlement; Aboriginality; identity; resistance; kinship; survival; racism; Native Police; traditional Aboriginal life; relationship to land; health; welfare; missions; working conditions; living conditions; slavery; violent conflict; disease introduced by Europeans; family separation; poisoning of Aborigines; rape of Aboriginal women; self-management; Warrigal Creek massacre; injustice from the law; assimilation
Notes For secondary school students
Bibliography Includes "selected further reading"
Audience For secondary school students and teachers
Restricted Mediated access: access to First Nations materials may be restricted while an audit, reparative description and reclassification of these materials is in progress
Subject Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of -- History.
Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Australian school textbook collection.
Author Miller, Ron.
West, Alan.
ISBN 085859563X paperback